Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)

PREA Unanimously passed both houses of Congress in 2003. It was the first federal law to address sexual abuse in detention (prisons, jails, juvenile facilities, lockups, community confinement) requiring data collection efforts, a grant program, a bipartisan commission, and national standards.

•No one deserves to be sexually abused

•Sexual abuse in detention is unacceptable and not part of the punishment

•Tolerating sexual abuse in detention is harmful to individual inmates & to the SA movement